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Outdoor temple courtyard under a corrugated metal canopy. A man with long swept-back hair, bare-chested, wearing a rust-red and gold-bordered dhoti and red-and-white garland, stands with palms joined in prayer facing a large deity murti. The murti is adorned with a crown, a dense red, white and yellow flower garland, a blue silk cloth and a red drape, and stands on a gold pedestal. A blue-fringed umbrella stands nearby, and behind it a white-clad priest holds a red garland. Two more white-clothed attendants stand at the left edge, and a metal cart or palanquin sits in the background among palm trees.

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